The purpose of the article is to form an idea about the release of educational and methodical literature on disciplines taught in various educational institutions of the Far East in the pre–revolutionary period. In this regard, the author provides statistical information on the release of literature by year and city of the Amur Educational District, demonstrates the variety of topics of published works, the structure and content of a number of publications. The source base was data from volumes 1 and 2 of the "Consolidated Catalog of the Siberian and Far Eastern Books" (Novosibirsk, 2004). When writing the article, various research methods were used: bibliographic, statistical, analytical-thematic, historical-retrospective. Generalized data on statistics and topics of educational and methodical publications published in the printing houses of the Far East in the pre-revolutionary period are presented for the first time. The results of the statistical analysis indicate that Vladivostok was the leader in publishing such literature. In other cities of the region, significantly fewer works were published. Among the textbooks, textbooks, lecture courses, anthologies were works on linguistics – Chinese, Korean, Tibetan, Japanese, Mongolian, English and French; Korean, Mongolian, Japanese literature; history of China and Japan; political science, military affairs, law, political economy, economics, agriculture, geography, meteorology, theology. A significant mass of publications consisted of programs, reports of educational institutions and societies, charters, instructions, protocols, rules, regulations, works on the history of educational institutions, as well as works dedicated to various anniversaries. The most actively published educational literature on linguistics. There were primers, textbooks, anthologies, lecture courses, grammars, etc. History and geography are mainly represented by lectures, state and law programs.
